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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Medway Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Medway website
4,795 approved · 3,315 refused · 1,238 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 25 Jul 2008 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 3 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
110 Walderslade Road Walderslade Chatham ME5 0LL
Received 4 Nov 2014Land Rear Of 37-43 High Street Chatham ME4 4EN
Received 4 Nov 2014Gibraltar Service Station New Road Chatham ME4 4RY
Received 3 Nov 2014Medway Hospital Windmill Road Gillingham Kent ME7 5NY
Received 3 Nov 201453 Woodside Rainham Gillingham ME8 0PL
Received 3 Nov 2014Sonning 34 Grain Road Wigmore Gillingham ME8 0ND
Received 3 Nov 20146 Eton Close Weeds Wood Chatham ME5 9AT
Received 3 Nov 201415 Cedar Grove Hempstead Gillingham ME7 3QT
Received 4 Nov 20148-12 New Road Chatham ME4 4QR
Received 31 Oct 2014Land Adjacent 2 Abbey Road Strood Rochester ME2 3QA
Received 3 Nov 201499 Bligh Way Strood Rochester ME2 2XF
Received 3 Nov 2014Meresborough Nursery Meresborough Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 8PP
Received 4 Nov 2014Former Tug And Shovel 65 North Street Strood Rochester ME2 4SW
Received 31 Oct 2014Ampersand House Parsonage Lane Strood Rochester ME2 4HP
Received 3 Nov 20142 Reedham Crescent Cliffe Woods Rochester ME3 8HT
Received 3 Nov 201477 Mill Road Gillingham ME7 1JB
Received 31 Oct 201422 Gerrard Avenue Rochester ME1 2RN
Received 3 Nov 2014Temple Waterfront Off Roman Way Strood Kent
Received 3 Nov 2014217-219 Balmoral Road Gillingham ME7 4QH
Received 3 Nov 201486 Hollywood Lane Wainscott Rochester ME3 8AR
Received 31 Oct 2014Site At Lower Upnor Depot Lower Upnor Rochester ME2 4UP
Received 29 Oct 2014Land Adjacent To 35 Manor Street Gillingham Kent ME7 5AW
Received 30 Oct 201421 New Road Rochester ME1 1BG
Received 30 Oct 2014104 Longley Road Rochester ME1 2HA
Received 31 Oct 2014Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Medway Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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